First off, a special shout out to everyone who keeps badgering me. I appreciate your love for me. I mean my story. Heehee. Also, to all of you who privately email me to cuss me out about not updating for a month(Emmy).
AN: SOOOOOOO VERY, INCREDIBLY, AMAZINGLY SORRY for making you wait this long. See, this is what happened. I was watching Star Trek, and the Borgs came. They sucked me through my t.v. and assimilated me. They finally set me free upon the condition that I write a KIBBS fanfic. (Because Borg are evil and this is a fate worse than death for a TATE shipper. On my way home, the transporter fizzed out and I got caught in a wormhole which deposited me on the Proteus. The spiders came, I went with the Robinson family,(heard of Blarp? Yeah, wormholes do funny things to human anatomy.) and I finally ended up back here, with help from Stargate SG-1's time machine. I'm alive and well now...if you don't count the fact that I'm currently an NCIS freak trapped in an extraterrestrial monkey's body.:D
Actually, ::seebsy(sheepish) grin:: I wrote the first half of chapter 10, then lost it. Only to open my notebook 2 1/2 weeks later (while I was depositing my new script of chapt10) and found the first edition of chapt 10 folded up right in the front pocket. Plain as day. :p My bad. Stop with the fruit! It's for eating, not throwing! I said I'm sorry!!!!!!!! Story...
"Okay, Ducky, I want you to go over that body again. See if you missed anything. Abby, put a rush on the evidence. This is priority one. Tony, Kate, we're going to find our crime scene." With that, Gibbs left the morgue, everyone but Ducky in tow.
In the elevator, Gibbs turned to Tony. "You and Kate go grab your gear and Cmdr. Scott's file. Meet me out front in 5."
The pair nodded and stepped off the elevator.
Gibbs rounded on Abby. "Abby, do you think she's alright?"
Her eyebrows shot up. "You're asking me?"
"Yeah, I'm asking you." Gibbs shrugged. "You're a woman. I figured you'd have an idea."
Abby frowned. "She seemed...calm. I'd be pretty freaked out if this happened to me. I guess Tony helped." The elevator chimed the lab floor.
"I guess..." Gibbs echoed, then shook his head. "Right. Thanks... Abby-"
The tech stopped in the elevator doorway.
"Are you sure she's fine?"
Abby shook her head. "Not one hundred percent. Ask her. Or Tony. He seems to have it under control."
Gibbs nodded as the doors closed and he lost himself in his thoughts. He was adept in interrogation, but he couldn't tell if Kate was really as okay as she claimed. She seemed fine, but... Gibbs shook his head as the elevator doors reopened at the lobby. 'Tony has a handle on the situation.'
Gibbs smirked when he saw his partners waiting by the car. They were both smiling at whatever Tony was saying.
"'Least they aren't biting each other's heads off." He muttered. "Gear in the trunk?" He asked.
"All set, Boss." Tony replied, tossing Gibbs the keys.
Tony waited for Kate to get in the back before he shut her door and climbed into the front. Gibbs sat back from the car's navigation console and started the car.
"Kate, what does the victim's file say?"
Kate began reading out of the file in her lap. "Lieutenant Commander Choebe Scott; surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Never married, no kids. Only girl in a family of four brothers. Father died of skin cancer in '89; mother of heart falilure in '98. The youngest brother died in Iraq this year. He was a private first class in supply. All of the remaining three brothers are civilian; a dentist, chiropractor, and engineer. Family obviously came from money. Commander Scott received her surgical degree from Duke University; did her internship at the Triangle. From there, she enlisted in the Navy and was made an officer through OCS. She served as an assistant surgeon aboard the USS John C. Stennis for her tour of duty before coming to Bethesda in 2002, where she's been ever since."
Gibbs nodded in approval. "I want to have a look at the crime scene before you tell me where you were. Then I need an exact, detailed account of what happened. Okay?" He asked Kate.
"Fine."
The trio settled into an odd silence, the younger two merely staring out the windows whilst Gibbs drove to the bar.
"So," Gibbs finally said. "Tony, you're staying with Kate tonight. Want me to take tomorrow?"
"Nah, Boss," Tony replied, looking back at Kate. "I can be there for as long as Kate needs me."
Kate silently smiled at him and he returned it with a lopsided grin.
Gibbs caught the look in the rear view mirror. "Uh, is..."
Tony turned back around. "Yeah, Boss?"
Gibbs cleared his throat. "We're here." He informed them, pulling into the vacant lot. 0900 was definitely too early for a drink.
"Tony, sketches and measurements. Kate, take the camera with you and Tony. You see something you need to photograph, take Tony with you."
The three departed with a nod, Gibbs starting on the front parking lot, Tony and Kate taking the back.
Tony's eyebrows quirked when they came around the corner. "There's parking back here. That explains the absence of dumpsters in the alley."
Kate snapped a picture of a purse hanging haphazardly out of a trash bin. The flash went off, and something thudded the back of the bin. Startled, Kate looked down toward the noise.
"Tony," she softly called.
Tony turned around to see the missing dumpster beside the bar's concrete steps.
"Oh, God," He murmured. "Boss, c'mere!" He yelled.
Gibbs quickly rounded the corner of the building. "What is it?"
"We've got another body."
Sorry it was short, but mom gave me a set time to finish typing it(I would've just transferred it from the other computer, but I can't figure out how to save to a flopy on it. Anyone out there have Linux?
AN: Okay, for those of you born on different planets, Duke has a med. school. Duke is located in North Carolina. 'The Triangle' refers to three universities in N.C. that are VERY close to one another. Many graduates from one of these three schools(and some others) do their internship at the hospitals there.
The name Choebe (KO-Bee) is a tribute to my very good friend from the old CB board. ::wavies:: The death of the first victim's parents is how and when my grandparents died. Now, part of this may have seemed liked Gibbs was slightly in love with Kate. jtbwriter, that's dedicated to you. Sorry if it wasn't enough, but you badger me so. Maybe I'll write a special story for you. "Baby steps....Baby steps." :D BUT, TATE shippers, this is NOT that story. Stick with me. The next chapter is half written and you will like it. :D (It also contains the medical part about the body, lab workup, etc.) You won't like it so much that KIBBS shippers will stop reading it though. Or will they? o. Alrighty roo, that's about it. So, review, review, review!
